A return to the action

With it being only around 16 or so hours late.

With that being typed, I wish everyone a very blessed holiday season, no matter which religion, if any, you celebrate, and a happy new year.

Info dump.....

I suppose a couple of apologies are necessary for this one ....

First - I know, I'm late - pre-generated excuse #044 - the holidays.  'Nuff said.

Second - this is a little back ground on the monsters that our heros are currently fighting against.  Again.

Since last time (yeah, back in November) I couldn't fit all the script on the planned page, I ended up adding a page to the script in order to handle my overly verbose nature.  Fairly happy with the layout on this one, but I have decided that I need to re-do the Temple of Romanova.

I "constructed" the Temple in a 3D CAD type program.  That way I wouldn't have to wonder what the temple looked like from odd camera angles.  And I wanted it based on the ancient Greek temples, ala Amazonian style.  In theory, a brilliant idea.  However, since I didn't get the scale of the temple right (from the beginning), and since I'm not liking how my digital engineering is turning out, I've decided that I'm going to delete the file and start over from scratch.  So, maybe one day, I'll go back and edit the previous pages with the new temple design.  Yeah.  Right.

Another thing is that I've gone back a page, and "fixed" my editing mistakes on the first page of this info dump.  Now, I just have to work my way back one more page to fix editing mistakes.  Then I get to go back even further and fix some shading errors (or lack thereof).

I was hoping to have this chapter finished by the end of the year - probably not going to happen.  There are five more pages (maybe even six) to go before the chapter is finished.  I have three of them ready to color and am still working on the pencils for the other two.  So, I'm gonna say this chapter won't be finished until February of next year.  Apologies, but that's just life getting in the way of my artistic endeavors.

Any ways, enjoy the end of the info dump.  Cheers!

Back story history

Thus, we have the beginning of the back story to the terrible creatures that our heros are facing.  Part one at least.

I was hoping to fit everything on this one page, but it looks like I'll have to finish up on the next one (ie, bonus page to script).

I admit, in my devious mind I modeled some of the Yig Sith off of the Aliens idea, coupled with some scraps from the H.P. Lovecraft mythos.

I am also working on some maps of the Arcane Compass.  I have decided to make some changes (yet again), so here hopefully before the end of the year, these new changes will be on-line and ready for you to look at.

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving (even those herbivores out there).

As the lesson continues ...

I know - I'm about 26 hours late, but I had equipment malfunction, coupled with the fact that replacement parts aren't manufactured anymore (except for the crappy over-seas that aren't even worth breaking).

I finally figured out why the last couple of pages didn't quite look right to me - I forgot to drop some shadows in.  duh ....

This page took some work, and some re-work, and some more re-work ... some of my texture ideas just didn't work (at least I couldn't get them to work).  And I figured out that the CGI model that I had made for the Romanova temple wasn't in the correct scale ... oops.

Anyways, here we witness the acolyte summon the earth elemental weird, with an allusion to what end she was summoned, ie - a brief history lesson of the Arcane Compass is to follow.

Meanwhile, back in Themiscrya...

A shift in story just as our heros entered round 3 with their new playmates.  A cut-scene for some background info.

Kinda happy with this one, kinda not.  Eh ... perhaps it's just were I've only had 5 hours of sleep in the past two days.

As a side note - experienced my first SCA event today.  Barring the cold weather and my daughter being under the weather herself, it was most excellent - we both enjoyed it.

Or is she?

Yeah, yeah - a couple of days late, but pre-generated excuse #144 - I (hopefully) corrected some coding errors of the comic pages, added an archive page (graphic to come later) and tried to spiff the over sleekness.

Pretty content with this one - I was ahead of schedule til I started my web-monkey tinkering.

Finally - rescuing the damsel in distress

So I'm a three days late.  Big deal.

I'm fairly happy with this one, although I probably should go back over this later on.  I need to work on the light / shadow in this one, and the two before it.  Enjoy.